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...embarrassment about it." For a while, Ed blamed himself for his mother's condition--he wondered if his birth had made her snap--but mostly he tried to banish her from his mind and go on with his life. He joined the Air Force and married his wife Velma. They had three children...
...duty, and he was given a less than honorable discharge. Still, neither he nor his parents were ready to accept the idea that he had a mental illness--although by then his grandmother's history was no longer a secret. "Maybe we were trying so hard to forget," says Velma...
Although Peter was finally getting treatment, the future seemed scarier than ever. Velma recalls one particularly poignant and lucid conversation at the hospital, in which her son wondered, "Is this it? Does this mean my life's over and I'll never do anything again?" Because Peter was an adult--and hadn't signed away his right to privacy--the hospital staff didn't tell his parents much about his condition. They had little idea what they were dealing with or what was to come...
...Madonna and Goldie and just before the casting search got around to Britney and Christina, Chicago has finally become a movie--the first one with two stars whose surnames begin with Z, as in pizazz, for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger are perfectly paired as show-biz archetypes. Velma (Zeta-Jones) is the born entertainer, oozing charisma. Roxie (Zellweger) is the rest of us: the type with no gifts but an almost obscene ambition to make...
...kids on the show who look like the kids who watch the show." (Jerry Springer later took that idea and honed it to putting people on his show who were even dumber, uglier and more deranged than the people who watched it.) But the show's producer, Velma Von Tussle (Linda Hart), insists on keeping the cast prim and pretty, with her blond daughter Amber (Laura Bell Bundy) as the Shrewish American Princess and hunky Link Larkin (Matthew Morrison) as her consort...